Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table 40
Food unfit for human consumption
Bacon | 3.462½ lbs. | Apricot pulp | 2 cwt. 46 lbs. |
Beefex | 3 | ||
Cooked | 91½ lbs. | Chicken pie | |
Tinned | 4,836 lbs. | Cakes | 14 |
Raw | 3.1574½ lbs. | Chocolates | 69 lbs. |
Cocoa | ½ lb. | ||
Cordial | 5 bottles | ||
Cream | 127 tins | ||
Tinned | 942 tins | Creamed rice | 5 tins |
Custard powder | 4 pkts. | ||
Raw | 463 lbs. | Frozen fish fingers | 35½ lbs. |
Frozen peas and beans | 59½ lbs. | ||
Fruit juice | 112 tins | ||
Tinned | 4.278 tins | Honey | 4 lbs. |
Ice cream | 82 pkts. | ||
Raw | — | Jellies | 6 pkts. |
Lemon pie filler | 6 lbs. | ||
Lemonade crystals | 7 tins | ||
Tinned | 9.145 tins | Meat pies | 9 |
Raw | Processed coffee | 1 tin | |
Salad cream | 84 bottles | ||
Bread, flour, cereals, etc. | 89½ lbs. | Sausages | 67½ lbs. |
Preserves | 391 lbs. | Soup (tins) | 775 |
Soup (pkts.) | 12 | ||
Cheese | 25¾ lbs. | Syrup | 1 tin |
Tinned milk | 2,562 tins | Tomato pulp | 5 tons, 15 cwt. 99 lbs. |
Table 41
Types of food premises
Baker | 30 |
Bread and confectionery | 35 |
Dairy | 3 |
Butcher | 120 |
Grocer and general store | 337 |
Fishmonger and fish fryer | 47 |
Cafe and restaurant | 144 |
Greengrocer and fruiterer | 126 |
Ice cream and sweet shop | 219 |
Food stall | 10 |
Public house | 40 |
Works canteen | 113 |
School canteen | 15 |
Food factory | 7 |
Other food premises | 31 |
Total | 1,277 |
Inspections | 2,962 |
Revisits | 1,686 |
Total | 4,648 |
Table 42 Improvements in food premises
Premises unsatisfactory on 31.12.56 | 130 |
Unsatisfactory during the year | 466 |
Premises made satisfactory during the year | 537 |
Unsatisfactory on 31.12.57 | 59 |